Bottle-cap lifter and cigar-cutter.



E. G. HUNT.

BOTTLE CAP LIFTER AND CIGAR CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 24, 1909.

933,988 Patented Sept. 14,1909.

. lNVE NTOR ELLWOOD C. HUNT, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK.'

' BOTTLE-CAP LIFTER AND CIGAR-CUTTER.

Speciflcatidh of Letters latent. Patented Sept. 14, 1909.

Application filed Iarch 24, 1909. Serial No. 485,551.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLWOOD C. HUNT, a resident of Poughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, and a citi- 2011 of the United States, have invented certain Improvements in Bottle-Ga Lifters and Cigar-Cutters, of which the 0 lowing is a specification.

This invention aims to provide a convenient implement for the pocket which com-.

bines with a cigar cutter a suitable and convenient opener for bottles closed with the ordinary corrugated caps or similar closures. The device is constructed as a scissors-like cigar cutter having on one-of its jaws a prong for engaging the rim of the cap,and a seat for resting on the top of the cap to enable the requisite upward prying movement to be imparted for loosenin and removin the cap. The device is pr erably adapte to be hung upon a key-ring and to take little if any more space in the pocket than a key of the ordinary pin-tumbler type.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is an elevation of the device in position for use as a cigar cutter, and showing it in engagement with a key-ring and key. Fig. 2

is an elevation showing the device in position for use as a bottle opener. In this figure the device is shown viewed from the opposite side to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view showing the device folded together for the pocket. Fig. 4 is a detail of a modified form of eye.

Referring to the drawings, A designates my improved pocket tool or implement, B a key-ring, C a key thereon, D-a bottle, and E a bottle cap here shown as of the ordinary corrugated type. I The tool or device A is constructed of two blades or jaws of sheet metal lettered respectively F and G. They are pivotally united by a rivet H, so that they maymove.

or swing upon one another in manner similar to that of a pair of scissors. In one ofthem,

shown as the blade F, is formed an opening a for receiving the tip ofthe cigar to be cut, while the other blade is formed with a cutting edge which by a relative swinging movement is carried across the opening a to out 01f the tip of the cigar. In Fig. 1 the implement is shown in position for use as a cigar cutter. The opening a is countersunk on the side facing the observer in this view, so as to form a. sharp edge on' the opposite side next the knife edge 6, so that the latter may cooperate with this sharpened edge to make a clean shear cut. Cigar cutters of this type are in themselves well known. To faciIitate manipulating the blades, they are formed with openings 0 and (1- respectively, like the blades of a pair of scissors, so as to admit the finger and thumb. One of the blades hasa stop e formed by turning up an ear or projection so that it shall stand in the path of the other blade, striking at the Ipoint e, so as to serve as a stop when the lades are folded together for the pocket.

They are shown thus folded in Fig. 3. To hold them together when thus folded the blades are formed with beads f and f respectively, struck up or embossed in sheet metal, which in the folded position coincide and fit the one within the other. Being of rounded contour they are easily separated when it is desired to open out the blades for use. v

When the implement is to be used as a bottle opener, its blades are opened wide apart, as shown in Fig. 2. In this position stops upon the respective blades come into engagement so as to prevent any further relative movement, and thereby permit the blade F to be used as a handle for the blade G. These stops might be variously formed, being aflorded in the construction shown by turning in an ear 9 from the metal of the blade, G, so that this car overlaps and partly embraces the pivotal portion 72. of the blade F, and when the latter is swung around on the blade G in the direction of the arrow 01 in Fig. 1, the portion 11 which terminates the circular pivotal boss 71., abuts against the edge of the ear g, and arrests further movement. When the jaws are thus opened out, the jaw or blade G is placed over the bottle cap, being formed with a projection or foot 7', which rests upon the top of the cap to form a 'fulcrum, while near the pivot this blade is formed with a spur or hook is, which is adapted to enter under the rim of the flange, or into one of the corrugations of the cap,so that. by exerting an upward prying movement upon the blade F, which serves as a handle, the cap is pried upward and detached from the bottle neck. The prying strain is resisted by the abutting shoulders or stops 9, i.

In order that the implement may conveniently be carried upon a key-ring, one

of the blades is formed with an eye m (or m Fig. 4:) through which the key-ring is passed. This eye may be an opening coinveniently kept out of the way 'cidin with that from which the ear 9 is struc up, as. shown in Figs. 1-3, but this is not v'necessaryh. The eye is so located that when the blades. are opened out as shown in Fig. 2, it is not crossed or intersected by the other blade, so as to interfere with the key-. rmg. In usIng the device as a bottle opener,

the key-ring and any keys upon it are conby holding them within the hand and close to the blade F., .as shown. in Fig. 2, ;where,the. ha'nd'of the user is indicated in dotted lines.

blades are folded together for the pocket by, means of a projecting finger pon the blade The hook or spur la is protected when the This'fin-ger isso arranged, that italso guards the-spur when the device is in use latter exposed and free for use.

The .pocket implement thus described is as a cigar cutter, as shown in Fig. 1;. but

when the jaws are openedswidezfor use as a bottle cap lifter, the fingeris swung entirely beyond this spur, so as to leave the very simple in construction, folds together so compactly 'asto be conveniently carried on a key-ring, may be conveniently opened out andlused as a cigar cutter,'and .by an additional'instantaneousmovement. is converted into. a convenient and suitable bottle opener.

'- My invention .is .not: limited to. the precise deta ls of construction shown and described,

but may bevaried considerably without de'-,

, parting fromits essential features;

I am aware that various constructionsiof pocket im lements have been devised as bottle cap 1i ters and that other constructions have been devlsed as cigar cutters; but I am i not aware that a-cigar cutter of the scissors v or swinging-blade ty e has ever been adapt ed for use also as a ottle cap 0 ener, thus,

comb in .one compact lmpement the I functions of both tools.

I claim. as ;my invention.- v

1. A ocket implement comprising two blades pivoted .t ether, the one formed with an openingand t eother with a cutting edge to constitute a cigarcutter, one of the blades formed with a bearing foot and with a spur to constitute a bottle cap lifter, and the .bladespivoted together, the one blade formed-with a guard overlap and shieldsald s ur w en the blades position. a v 1 ocket implement comprising two i blades plvoted together, formed with recipwitnesses.

are. arranged'in other t an the cap-lifting rocal stops to limit their relative movements, and one of said blades formed with a projecting eye adapted-t0 receive'a ke -ring and located beyond the intersection of the other fblade during itsnmovemnt between said 'stops- 4. A ocket implement comprising two blades pivoted together, one blade having an ear adjacent to the iv'ot,-overlying and embracing the 'pivota portion 1 of the other blade,"and the latter'havinga stop shoulder terminating such pivotal, portion and adapted to abut against said ear to limit the relative swinging movementiof the blades.

5.. A pocket implement comprisin two members pivoted together at their en s, one

' ofsaid members having a bearing. foot and a spur to constitute a bottle cap lifter, and said member havingxfalso 'a. cutting blade, and the other ofsaid members having an opening adapted to co-act with said cutting .blade to form a cigar cutter, the last-named member being adapted'to serve as a handle for the first named member when the implement is used as a bottle cap lifter.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing ELLWOOD c. HUNT.

A Witnesses: WILLIAM C. Ammo, LENA 'KLAUSMAN. 

